The down side to all this is that DMD has required many hours of work; in particular countless hours of sifting through sites to catalog them. As happens, life has caught up with me. In particular his name is Jack and he is now 1 year old. So I had to rethink Design Meltdown, or let it die.

Of course the notion of letting it die is horrible. So there are two changes in order:

1. Design Meltdown is going to become an annual site. This simply means I will reset things each year. This solves the problem of things getting large and unmanageable. Each year I can change directions or modify how the site works. Plus it makes each sub site a snapshot in time for that year. This also enables the most recent site to be more current and less chance of users looking at dated styles and content.

2. For 2010 the site will focus on linking to outside articles. I will still catalog and comment on these collections. But the collections will not be mine or created by me (of course I will probably throw in a few sets of my own from time to time). So DMD 2010 will be a directory of styles the same as it always has, but all created by readers and bloggers. Feel free to send me a link to your recent posts on design trends etc.

So I hope you enjoy the new flavor of DMD, and as always, I appreciate the massive loyalty my readers have shown.

And I almost forgot, DMD 2010 is on WordPress! The original site was hand built and a total mess. So I finally get to blog on a real platform…thank heaven!